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authorRajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>2016-09-14 07:18:32 (GMT)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2016-09-15 14:46:20 (GMT)
commite8a24cd4b87247beedb1addc7b683422092047e5 (patch)
tree07a07b39d1a9a074ba4833dc9fac02ca2bda73ab /net
parentc7e9dbcf09bddd01568113103d62423d8894eabd (diff)
downloadlinux-e8a24cd4b87247beedb1addc7b683422092047e5.tar.xz
mac80211: allow driver to handle packet-loss mechanism
Based on consecutive msdu failures, mac80211 triggers CQM packet-loss mechanism. Drivers like ath10k that have its own connection monitoring algorithm, offloaded to firmware for triggering station kickout. In case of station kickout, driver will report low ack status by mac80211 API (ieee80211_report_low_ack). This flag will enable the driver to completely rely on firmware events for station kickout and bypass mac80211 packet loss mechanism. Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/debugfs.c1
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/status.c6
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/debugfs.c b/net/mac80211/debugfs.c
index 5bbb470..8ca62b6 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/debugfs.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/debugfs.c
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ static const char *hw_flag_names[] = {
FLAG(USES_RSS),
FLAG(TX_AMSDU),
FLAG(TX_FRAG_LIST),
+ FLAG(REPORTS_LOW_ACK),
#undef FLAG
};
diff --git a/net/mac80211/status.c b/net/mac80211/status.c
index fabd9ff..ea39f8a7 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/status.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/status.c
@@ -557,6 +557,12 @@ static void ieee80211_report_used_skb(struct ieee80211_local *local,
static void ieee80211_lost_packet(struct sta_info *sta,
struct ieee80211_tx_info *info)
{
+ /* If driver relies on its own algorithm for station kickout, skip
+ * mac80211 packet loss mechanism.
+ */
+ if (ieee80211_hw_check(&sta->local->hw, REPORTS_LOW_ACK))
+ return;
+
/* This packet was aggregated but doesn't carry status info */
if ((info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_AMPDU) &&
!(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU))